The Culture of Contentment / / John Kenneth Galbraith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Galbraith, John Kenneth,
• MitwirkendeR: Galbraith, John Kenneth,; Madrick, Jeff,
• TeilnehmendeR: Madrick, Jeff.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class-not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority-defend their comfortable status at a cost. Middle-class voting against regulation and increased taxation that would remedy pressing social ills has created a culture of immediate gratification, leading to complacency and hampering long-term progress. Only economic disaster, military action, or the eruption of an angry underclass seem capable of changing the status quo. A groundbreaking critique, The Culture of Contentment shows how the complacent majority captures the political process and determines economic policy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- A WORD OF THANKS -- CHAPTER 1. THE CULTURE OF CONTENTMENT -- CHAPTER 2. The Social Character of Contentment: An Overview -- CHAPTER 3. The Functional Underclass -- CHAPTER 4. Taxation and the Public Services: The Perverse Effect -- CHAPTER 5. The License for Financial Devastation -- CHAPTER 6. The Bureaucratic Syndrome -- CHAPTER 7. The Economic Accommodation, I -- CHAPTER 8. The Economic Accommodation, II -- CHAPTER 9. The Foreign Policy of Contentment: The Recreational and the Real -- CHAPTER 10. The Military Nexus, I -- CHAPTER 11. The Military Nexus, II -- CHAPTER 12. The Politics of Contentment -- CHAPTER 13. The Reckoning, I -- CHAPTER 14. The Reckoning, II -- CHAPTER 15. Requiem -- Index